by Sue Robbins | Oct 19, 2015 | Migraine
Accurate diagnosis is key to headache treatment, but arriving at the correct diagnosis can often be challenging for health care professionals who work with young patients. At Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, pediatric neurologist Carl Stafstrom, MD, has turned...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 13, 2015 | Migraine
Quality communication is critical between patients and health care professionals, but a new study has found that it often falls short between patients with chronic migraine and their physicians. This situation leads to suboptimal treatment, according to a new study...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 11, 2015 | Wellness
Howard Schubiner, MD, Clinical Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine has a blog that appears in Psychology Today. He states that his medical practice consists entirely of people who are suffering from conditions, including headaches, neck and back...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 2, 2015 | Natural Remedies
Natural remedies may help, without the common side effects seen with our usual preventives. Petadolex is an improved form of the herb butterbur, where the molecule that we worry about in butterbur is limited. Petadolex is effective, and held up well in randomized...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 22, 2015 | Migraine
The association between seasonal allergies and headaches has been well documented in several studies. A recent study found that headaches are 1.5 times more common in those with atopic conditions (asthma, seasonal allergic rhino sinusitis, chronic bronchitis) than...